In my head I wanted this week’s design to have a floral theme. After looking through my plates to try and work out how I would complete the design I kept getting fixated on the butterfly plate. Eventually, I changed my design to create Butterfly Nail Art.
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The Base – Dreams need Clara-fication
I started this design with what is now my favourite blue, Dreams need Clara-fication by OPI. This is a beautiful baby blue that paired well with the butterflies. Because it’s so light this shade would allow me to use most colours for the butterfly wings.
As with most OPI polishes Dreams need Clara-fication, went on smoothly and dried quite quickly. Two coats were required for full opacity.
Butterfly Nail Art – Stamping
Using the reverse stamping technique I added 10 images from maniology plate BM-718 to my stamping mat using a black stamping polish (use code THENAILCHRONICLE for 10% Maniology). I decided to take a risk by not creating extras. If one or two of the decals failed I would just leave some of my nails bare.
Then using my dotting tool I filled in the wing. I decided to go with blue and green. For the blue, I used My Favourite Gal Pal by OPI. I realised halfway through that the blue I selected would be too dark to see the black stamping polish. So I stopped and made the remaining butterflies green using OPI, My Dogsled is a Hybrid. Off the blue butterflies, only 1 was usable but at least the green ones worked out ok.
I then applied the clear top coat and allowed the decals to dry. Afterwhich, using tweezers I carefully placed down each usable image onto my nail.
Overall
After spending 20minutes convincing myself to change my design idea, I’m really glad that I created butterfly nail art. I’m in love with the butterflies and the contrast against the baby blue.
Let me know in the comments what colour butterfly would you create?
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